Battle of the Books 2017

Battle of the Books is a book competition for 4th and 5th grade students enrolled in international schools throughout South Korea. Student teams from each school read 10 books, practice for the competition, and then meet to compete with other schools. The next Battle of the Books will be held on Saturday, April 8, 2017 at Seoul Foreign School.

(AR level: 3.8, AR points: 3.0, Lexile: 540)
Summary from Goodreads:
Jackson and his family have fallen on hard times. There's no more money for rent. And not much for food, either. His parents, his little sister, and their dog may have...

(AR level: 4.6, AR points: 7.0, Lexile: 700)
Summary from Goodreads:
This is the story of THE LEAGUE OF PICKLE MAKERS.
Ben: who began it all by sneaking in one night and filling homeroom with ball-pit balls.
Frank: who figured out that ...

(AR level: 4.5, AR points: 4, Lexile: 620)
Summary from Goodreads:
Miles Murphy is not happy to be moving to Yawnee Valley, a sleepy town that’s famous for one thing and one thing only: cows. In his old school, everyone knew him as the t...

(AR level: 4.8, AR points: 4, Lexile: 700)
Summary from Goodreads:
Nobody likes Jacques Papier besides his sister; when he comes across a cowgirl at the park and she informs him that he's an imaginary friend, just like her, Jacques’s wor...

(AR level: 3.9, AR points: 3, Lexile: 580)
Summary from Goodreads:
When the new kid joins his class, Woodrow agrees with his schoolmates--Toulouse is really weird. He's short - kindergarten short - dresses in a suit like a grandpa, has h...

(AR level: 3.9, AR points: 6, Lexile: 570)
Summary from Goodreads:
Although Mitsi Kashino and her family are swept up in the wave of anti-Japanese sentiment following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Mitsi never expects to lose her home -- or...

(AR level: 3.2, AR points: 1.0, Lexile: 460)
Summary from Goodreads:
When Marvin and Stuart sleep over at Nick Tuffle s house for Nick s birthday, they set up sleeping bags in the back yard. Stuart and Nick go right to sleep, but Marvin...

(AR level: 5.2, AR points: 10, Lexile: 730)
When Jax wakes up to a world without any people in it, he assumes it's the zombie apocalypse. But when he runs into his eighteen-year-old guardian, Riley Pendare, he learns that he's really in ...

(AR level: 3.8, AR points: 4.0, Lexile: 550)
Summary from Goodreads:
Ten-year-old Manami did not realize how peaceful her family's life on Bainbridge Island was until the day it all changed. It's 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, ...